Those things that we've been told to do, be it Afghanistan.... And of course, Afghanistan isn't the only mission. There's also our first line of operations. The single most important thing we do—and I guess you can think of the armed forces as having three main tenets—is that we take care of Canadians first. So across the entirety of the Canadian Forces we have probably 10,000 great folk in uniform who are serving the interests of Canada, defending Canada and Canadians at home--from search and rescue, to the Rangers, to the immediate-reaction units, to the immediate-reaction ships, the ready-duty ships, and the list goes on.
On November 20th, 2006. See this statement in context.